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or and a desire to avoid international criticism for propping up a nuclear armed country with an abysmal human rights record for the north korean regime the deals with china look like an easy fix for its tangle of diplomatic and economic woes kim jong il has set 2012 the centennial of the birth of his father kim il sung as a deadline for north korea to become a strong and prosperous nation the government s latest propaganda slogan posted by grant montgomery at 2 18 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday june 08 2011 eu team visits north korea to assess food aid needs voa reports a team of european officials is traveling in north korea to assess the need for food aid the five member team flew to north korea from beijing on monday and is expected to remain until june 17 visiting both the countryside and the capital pyongyang the five are members of the european union s humanitarian aid agency the head of the team marco capurro told japan s kyodo news agency the group expects to discuss its findings with international agencies and with members of a u s team that just completed a similar mission the head of the u s team human rights envoy robert king said his group still has not decided whether food aid is warranted he said that even if there is a need north korea must find a way to assure donors that it will go to those most in need united nations food agency teams recently reported that more than one quarter of north korea s population is in urgent need of food aid posted by grant montgomery at 1 13 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday june 07 2011 north korean defector appointed to high level s korean post south korea says it has decided to appoint a north korean defector as head of a government research institute it would be the highest south korean government job that a north korean refugee has ever taken the unification ministry in seoul said in a statement tuesday that economist cho myung chul will be formally appointed as chief of the ministry affiliated education center for unification later this week media reports say cho taught at pyongyang s kim il sung university and defected in 1994 cho currently works at seoul based korea institute for international economic policy posted by grant montgomery at 11 28 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday june 06 2011 north korea turning the tables it did seem like a fun idea at the time why not hoist huge photos of kim jong il and son and heir kim jong eun and have young south korean army soldiers fire away at them for target practice it just didn t strike the north koreans as funny no sooner did they get word about it than they were off on a rhetorical bender promising the same retaliatory military strikes that they have said they will deploy against those so bold as to launch the dreaded balloons the north korean language in the case of the use of images of the dear leader and son was particularly harsh the korean people s army and the worker peasant red guards will launch practical and overall retaliatory military actions to wipe out the group of traitors at a stroke said a military spokesman on top of that the spokesman called on south korean puppet authorities to apologize for the hideous provocation and to guarantee it would never happen again the bottom line is the north now has another avenue that it s pursuing in search of aid and empathy this one it seems is far more promising for pyongyang and infuriating to seoul than the revelation that lee would like to follow the footsteps to pyongyang of the two previous presidents whose soft line sunshine policy he has gone to great lengths to reverse north korea s ace is the relationship that its skilled negotiators appear to have struck up with the us envoy on human rights to north korea robert king his quick trip there on a fact finding mission about the north s need for food and other forms of aid was only the beginning a north korean official king said specifically invited him back to talk about human rights and he s looking forward to the opportunity in other words while spurning president lee s hesitant overtures in no uncertain terms north korea is happy to chat it up with a representative of the regime that s seen as pulling the strings on the south korean marionette donald kirk writing in asia times read more posted by grant montgomery at 11 56 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest how do the north koreans manage to con the americans so easily the question south koreans are asking as they ve asked regularly over the years is how do north korean negotiators manage to con their american interlocutors so easily here s a regime that has time and again rejected deflected and derided any attempt at confirming the most egregious violations of human rights and us envoy robert king apparently thinks he s going to get somewhere by accepting another invitation to pyongyang king s got south korean officials extremely nervous if not infuriated by giving the impression that he really thinks he s going to get anywhere in talks with the north koreans the whole goal of the north korean game they believe is to dig a ditch between north korea and the us and relegate the south to the role of the puppet to whom there s no point in talking about much of anything king himself finally acknowledged what had been clear for some time that south korea really opposes us moves to resume providing food and fertilizer to north korea the us cut off aid in tandem with the south in the early months of lee s administration but pressure is mounting fast for a shift in us policy if north korea can get king to come back on the pretense of talking about human rights it s a safe bet the north koreans will come up with a scheme for addressing what king has called our serious concerns about monitoring and outstanding issues related to our previous food program among these issues is what the north koreans did with 20 000 tons of food that the few americans who were there never got to monitor as promised they were ordered out of the country more than two years ago before that food was ever distributed another issue is the north koreans don t want any korean speakers on the american team no need to have these interlopers snooping around chatting casually with someone with an inkling of what s going on donald kirk writing in asia times posted by grant montgomery at 11 53 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday june 05 2011 time for implementation of the north korean human rights act excerpts of a testimony by robert king special envoy for north korean human rights issues my position exists because north korea remains one of the worst human rights violators in the world state security forces reportedly commit severe human rights abuses and subject political prisoners to brutality and torture elections are not free or fair the judiciary is not independent and citizens are denied freedom of speech press assembly and association in addition the dprk imposes severe restrictions on freedom of religion and freedom of movement finally we hear continuing and widespread reports of severe punishment of repatriated asylum seekers and of trafficking of women and girls across the border into china in my recent trip to pyongyang i engaged directly on human rights issues with kim kye gwan first vice minister of foreign affairs and other high level officials in the ministry of foreign affairs this was the first time the united states special envoy for north korean human rights issues was granted entry to the dprk and the first time we were able to engage in a direct dialogue about ways in which north korea can improve its human rights record this is a significant first step we have made no decision on whether we will provide food aid to north korea the dprk must first address our serious concerns about monitoring and outstanding issues related to our previous food aid program which north korea abruptly suspended in march 2009 and our humanitarian personnel were ordered to leave the country and forced to leave behind approximately 20 000 metric tons of u s food items in visits to north korean resettlement and assistance centers in the rok including hanawon i have seen the extent to which the rok has invested in providing opportunities to the 21 000 north koreans they have resettled i have learned from north korean refugees themselves about the grim conditions inside the dprk and their often perilous journey in seeking a better life in the rok editor s note in more than 6 years since the north korean human rights act of 2004 the united states has resettled only 120 north korean refugees and their families posted by grant montgomery at 12 08 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday june 04 2011 north korean defectors to visit us yonhap a group of five north korean defectors currently enrolled in south korean colleges will visit the united states on a u s government sponsored program the five north koreans will likely head for the united states next month according to the official from seoul s unification ministry the u s embassy in south korea and the ministry of education science and technology selected the five students in april for the west program the official said speaking on condition of anonymity under the student exchange program south korean students can visit the united states for up to 18 months five months of mandatory language programs plus internships up to one year long at u s companies followed by one month reserved for travel thousands of students have visited or are visiting the united states under the program since its launch in early 2009 but no one originating from north korea had been offered the chance until now the ministry will consider extending the program to more north korean defectors a ministry official said adding there are currently about 850 college students here who defected from north korea posted by grant montgomery at 11 46 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday june 03 2011 south korea acknowledges secret talks with north korea south korea s government on thursday admitted it held secret discussions with north korea last month and south korean president lee myung bak is facing criticism across the domestic political spectrum for the talks which were revealed by pyongyang on wednesday north korea claimed three south korean officials begged for a summit between leaders of the two countries and offered bribes at secret meetings in beijing last month unification minister hyun in taek on thursday confirmed to lawmakers the clandestine encounter did occur hyun says there was no attempt by south korea to arrange a leaders summit rather the secret talks were intended to press north korea to apologize for last year s military provocations which seoul insists is a prelude to improving the chilly relationship marcus noland a senior fellow at the peterson institute of international economics and the east west center in the united states says really the story is not that the south koreans were talking to the north koreas just like the chinese and americans are but rather that the north koreans chose to publically embarrass him just like they had done to a previous delegation of international statesmen that tried to reach out and open up some doors some western intelligence analysts say this signals a new dangerous phase in inter korean relations the analysts say the recent statements from the north could mean it is willing to take some sort of military action in response to any perceived provocations by the south noland an economist who closely follows north korea agrees with that scenario voa posted by grant montgomery at 1 56 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday june 02 2011 north korean defector claims north grooming hackers joongang ilbo reports north korea is bulking up the ranks of its cyberwarriors and is even sending them overseas to study the dark art of internet hacking according to a representative from a group of north korean defectors kim heung kwang of the north korea intellectuals solidarity a group known for reliable information said yesterday that north korea has increased its number of cyber terrorists to 3 000 up from around 500 in the past kim said those who show talent in computer skills are detected at a young age and sent to a special middle school in pyongyang to be groomed in the art of cyber attacks these young gifted students are placed in the best environment possible and once they graduate from school with the highest scores their families are brought to pyongyang to live with them kim said the students are then sent to kim il sung university or the kim chaek university of technology to further their computer studies once in that training the future hackers are sent to study abroad kim said and by the time they return the hackers are in their 20s kim said north korea realized that building the ranks of cyber warriors costs less money than to train army or air force soldiers north korea has been blamed for several recent south korean cyber security breaches including the hacking nonghyup bank servers the south korean military believes that north korea was behind spam e mails sent to high ranking south korean military officials that unleashed a virus into the recipient s computer and extracted personal data and information posted by grant montgomery at 2 27 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday may 31 2011 more on release of american missionary jun young su official reports from the korean central news agency has said that jun young su 60 of orange county california was released by north korea on humanitarian ground s the reports stated the investigation proved that jun committed a serious crime which he frankly admitted himself pyongyang did not report under precisely what charges it was holding jun under however it is understood that he was accused of attempting to spread christianity in north kore a american citizen jun young su r visiting u s delegates had called for jun s immediate release with the calls climaxing with the visit of robert king the u s envoy for north korean human rights he was successful in overseeing the final details of jun s release other high profile names to add their weight to calls for jun s release were former u s president carter and the rev franklin graham son of legendary evangelist billy graham sam kim the executive director of the korean church coalition kcc an ngo advocating for human rights on behalf of north koreans has released a statement greeting the release he said while we are thankful for missionary jun s release there are...